Tara Oldfield - Media Director, VVE - Has a blog for students to comment on the Maud Hart Lovelace nominated books. http://lovelacebookblog.blogspot.com/
Kelly Killorn - Reading, OMS - Has used gaggle.net for message boards to facilitate student discussion of books.
Only registered users can see her classes, but you can see what gaggle has to offer at http://www.gaggle.net
Jodi Carufel - Language Arts, OMS - Her students wrote poems and added music and images in iMovie. We didn't technically podcast them, but we put some of the best ones on the web as Quicktime Movies. http://www.bloomington.k12.mn.us/indschool/olj/StudentShowcase.htm
Bloomington ISD 271 Web 2.0 Projects
Here are some Web 2.0 Projects from our district.
Elementary
Kari Sickman - Kindergarten, Washburn Elementary - http://wb.bloomington.k12.mn.us/teachers/kari_sickman/Writer's%20Workshop
Writer's Workshop podcasts
Tara Oldfield - Media Director, VVE - Has a blog for students to comment on the Maud Hart Lovelace nominated books.
http://lovelacebookblog.blogspot.com/
Middle School
Amy Stenson, OGM, 8th grade reading blog http://evenpuckettlikestoread.blogspot.com/
Todd Walsh, OGM, 8th grade health and phy. ed. http://ogm.bloomington.k12.mn.us/teachers/Todd_Walsh/01729659-011EDE4D?object=Podcast&infobar=no&templates=RWD&ConfPosition=0&podcast
Comes off sidebar on his webpage - team 8-1
Maria Cates - Reading, VVMS - http://mcates.wikispaces.com/Journal_Buddies
Journal Buddies writing about historical fiction books
Annie Simonett - Language Arts, OMS - Her 7th graders created wiki web sites about their Literature Circle novels. http://www.bloomington.k12.mn.us/indschool/olj/mc_clwiki08.html
Dan Andersen - Social Studies, OMS - 8th graders have created an encyclopedia of countries using wikispaces.
http://countryprofiles8-2.wikispaces.com/
Kelly Killorn - Reading, OMS - Has used gaggle.net for message boards to facilitate student discussion of books.
Only registered users can see her classes, but you can see what gaggle has to offer at http://www.gaggle.net
Marcia Kochel - Media Specialist, OMS - Pageturners Book Club members create video booktalks that are available as podcasts. http://fcweb.bloomington.k12.mn.us/~MKochel/
Jodi Carufel - Language Arts, OMS - Her students wrote poems and added music and images in iMovie. We didn't technically podcast them, but we put some of the best ones on the web as Quicktime Movies.
http://www.bloomington.k12.mn.us/indschool/olj/StudentShowcase.htm
Gretchen Polkinghorne - Language Arts, OMS - http://mrspolk.blogspot.com/
OMS Book Blog by Marcia Kochel http://omsbookblog.blogspot.com/
VVMS Book Blog by Mary Childs and Mary Moeller http://vvmsmedia.edublogs.org/
Book of the Week Blog by Lee Gillis http://bookoftheweek.blogspot.com/
Mr. Lee's Musings by Tom Lee, OMS Principal http://oms.bloomington.k12.mn.us/teachers/tom_lee/0166F83F-011EDE4D?object=Blog&infobar=no&templates=RWD&ConfPosition=0&conferencesimpleview
High School
Meredith Aby - Social Studies, JHS - http://www.bloomington.k12.mn.us/indschool/tj/teachers/aby.html
Uses 2 blogs for her Philosophy and AP US Government class
http://learningwaby.blogspot.com/ and http://2008presidentialrace-meredith.blogspot.com/
Liz Boeser - Language Arts, JHS - http://www.bloomington.k12.mn.us/indschool/tj/teachers/boeser.html
Her College Writing blog is at http://missboeser.googlepages.com/collegewriting
The fictional wiki she uses with students is at http://highschoolcharacters.pbwiki.com/
Kari Raymond (JFK Math) blog at:
http://keepingitrealwithraymond.blogspot.com/
Kezelee Jones (JFK Math) (won't be fully operational until third quarter)
http://kjonesmath.blogspot.com/
Cheryl Tucker's Math Blog (JFK Math)
http://tuckersgeometry.blogspot.com/
Chris Lyons (JFK Social Studies) requires a 'Public Policy in the News' blog of his students in AP U.S. Government.
http://jfkwonks.blogspot.com